Rubes by Leigh Rubin for February 08, 2020

Don’t forget the cartoonists.

History is written by the Victors (who seldom get Hugos). But what most of us think we know about history does indeed come from entertainers.

And you don’t have the parrot on your shoulder .

As a child I was made to walk the plank . . . we couldn’t afford a dog

Yeah and he doesn’t have a peg leg or a hook hand or a parrot on his shoulder either and he didn’t say “Aarrrrr.”

aaarrggh matey

Wait. Davy Crockett didn’t wear a coonskin cap?

And Davey Jones was a musician.

What are all those “7s” in the water? Is that some pun on the Seven Seas?